knotty
Speech parts
1. knotty - Adjective
3. knotty - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Full of knots; knotted; having many knots; as, knotty timber; a knotty rope.
Hard; rugged; as, a knotty head.
Difficult; intricate; perplexed.
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a baffling problem
I faced the knotty problem of what to have for breakfast
a problematic situation at home
the Byzantine tax structure
Byzantine methods for holding on to his chairmanship
convoluted legal language